Albert Einstein

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Why history's most famous scientists are usually a bit weird

Obsessed with work, insensitive, socially detached, and neglectful of family and friends — these may not be the most endearing qualities in a person, but they are just a few of the common characteristics a researcher found when studying some of the world’s most famous and prolific inventors.

Why history's most famous scientists are usually a bit weird
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Einstein's handwritten secrets for a happy life auctioned for $1.56 million

Einstein's handwritten secrets for a happy life auctioned for $1.56 million
A frame from a simulation of the merger of two black holes and the resulting emission of gravitational radiation (colored fields, which represent a component of the curvature of space-time). The yellow areas near the black holes do not correspond to physi

Listen to the collision of two black holes. Einstein was right.

Listen to the collision of two black holes. Einstein was right.

Does God exist? Can science really disprove that?

Does God exist? Can science really disprove that?
Brilliant Blunders

A new book tells how Einstein and others made brilliant blunders

A new book tells how Einstein and others made brilliant blunders

Messy Desks a Sign of Creativity

Messy Desks a Sign of Creativity

Albert Einstein's archives going online

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem began posting online the archive of Albert Einstein on Monday. Currently about 2,000 documents totaling 7,000 pages are available to view in full. Over the coming years the entire archive, totaling more than 80,000 pages, will be available to the public.

Albert Einstein's archives going online

Albert Einstein's Documents Going Online

Albert Einstein's Documents Going Online

Einstein's Law of Relativity challenged by experiment

One of the world's foremost laboratories says they've found subatomic particles called neutrinos that travel even faster than the speed of light.

Einstein's Law of Relativity challenged by experiment
The World

Tough questions, hard answers: when babies are born too soon

We talk with two people intimately acquainted with pre-term babies, and the tough questions and decisions that only doctors and parents in their positions have to face.

Tough questions, hard answers: when babies are born too soon

Einstein, God and the Universe

Einstein once said 'science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind' -- a look at the science-religion debate.

Einstein, God and the Universe